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The Buke of the Howlat by Richard Holland: Scottish Text Society Fifth Series

Autor Ralph Hanna
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 sep 2014
The Buke of the Howlat was composed in the late 1440s for Elizabeth Douglas, wife of Archibald Douglas, earl of Moray. It is one of the great monuments of fifteenth-century Scots verse, perhaps the finest example of Older Scots alliterative poetry, telling a comic fable of an owl's borrowed feathers, his pride and ultimate fall, and a bird parliament which decides his fate. At its centre is a heraldic excurses which leads to a celebration of the virtues of the Douglas family and their service to Robert Bruce in the Scottish Wars of Independence. Its themes therefore focus on Scottish freedom, aristocratic achievement, and good self- and political governance; its influencesare drawn from chanson d'aventure, beast fable and complaint, and embrace the French, Scots, Gaelic and English Chaucerian and northern literary traditions, making it of great significance to anyone interested in the late medieval literature of the British Isles.
This critical edition provides a new text, with full modern annotation and glossary. Its introduction and notes address the textual transmission of the poem in detail, its traditionalalliterative form, the poetic tula, its language, heraldic elements, and historical references and contexts.

Ralph Hanna is Emeritus Professor of Palaeography, University of Oxford.
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ISBN-13: 9781897976395
ISBN-10: 1897976399
Pagini: 226
Ilustrații: 1 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings
Dimensiuni: 140 x 223 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Scottish Text Society
Seria Scottish Text Society Fifth Series


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Ralph Hanna

Cuprins

Introduction The Buke of the Howlat: The Text Collation of the witnesses Textual Commentary Glossary Bibliography

Descriere

Critical edition of an important Scottish poem, highlighting its striking poetic features.